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The Vargas Blues Band has been playing in Europe in renowned Montreaux Jazz Festival and Pop Korn Festival (Germany),
The Great Brithish R&B Festival, Antwerp R& B Festival, etc,
touring in Spain, France, Italy, Portugal, and Argentina always with great success.
The huge diversity of their musical influences (Rock, Soul, Flamenco, Latin music...) and the power of their tunes fulfil all the requirements to charm all kinds of audiences.
The extra instrumental support on Javier`s Albums came courtesy of international artists: Chris Rea, Junior Wells, Flaco Jimenez and Andres Calamaro, Steve Potts, Double Trouble, (Steve Ray Vaughan Band) Larry T. Thurston and Preston Shannon,Jack Bruce singing and playing bass in Pretty Blue; Glenn Hughes' awesome performance of a delicious “Sad Eyes”; Devon Allman (Greg´s son)
Carlos Santana's album "Santana Brothers" was released worldwide, including the song "Blues Latino" written by Javier Vargas. Santana played this song live at Woodstock 94
In July 1996 Carlos Santana invited Vargas to play two songs with him at Santana's concert held at the Zenith, in Paris.
In 1998, Santana invited Vargas and this time with his Cuban singer David Montes, to play again at his concerts in Madrid and Paris (Bercy). This experience was repeated in Spain, when Vargas played as a guest of Carlos Santana on his opening tour of "Supernatural" in 2000.
Bassist Larry Graham introduced Javier to Prince and on the "Jam of the Year" tour in Spain, December 1998,
Prince invited Vargas to Jam with him on stage in concert.
The Album “Love, Union, Peace” was release last March 2005.
The album is all feeling, and includes 10 new songs, a powerful version of the previously recorded Magic of the Gods now performed by
Devon Allman, and a delightful instrumental version of Burt Bacharach and Elvis Costello´s God Give me Strength
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